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Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Announce 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

Award Program to Take Place February 28, 2024 New Haven, Connecticut, November 14, 2023 — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty...

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Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Announce 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-sixth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards...

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Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Announce 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

Award Ceremony to Take Place February 11, 2025 New Haven, Connecticut, December 4, 2024— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the winners of the twenty-sixth...

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Women of the West

Virginia Scharff

Geography, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Women are like water to Western history. Both have flowed through the terrain we have come to call the West, long before the inhabitants conceived of themselves as part of an expanding United States. Both have been represented as...

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9 | The American West Fall 2006

History Now Essay

Andrew Jackson and the Constitution

Matthew Warshauer

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In 1860, biographer James Parton concluded that Andrew Jackson was "a most law-defying, law obeying citizen." Such a statement is obviously contradictory. Yet it accurately captures the essence of the famous, or infamous, Jackson....

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22 | Andrew Jackson and His World Winter 2009

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Women's Long Journey for the Vote

Eleanor Clift

Government and Civics

The earliest and most famous expression of the discontent American women felt over their station in life was voiced by Abigail Adams in March 1776 when she urged her husband, the future president John Adams, to “Remember the Ladies, ...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence

Hollis Robbins

Literature

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

One hundred years after Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, the poet Langston Hughes called the novel, "the most cussed and discussed book of its time." Hughes’s observation is particularly apt in that it avoids...

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16 | Books That Changed History Summer 2008

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Lincoln and Whitman

David S. Reynolds

Government and Civics, Literature

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The relationship between Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln has long been the stuff of legend. According to one report, in 1857 Lincoln in his Springfield law office picked up a copy of Whitman’s poetry volume Leaves of Grass , began...

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A Poem Links Unlikely Allies in 1775: Phillis Wheatley and George Washington

James G. Basker

Government and Civics, Literature

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

One of the most surprising connections of the American Revolutionary era emerged at the very beginning of the war between the African American poet Phillis Wheatley and the commander in chief of the American forces, George Washington....

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39 | American Poets, American History Spring 2014

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Announcing the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

New Haven, CT, November 16, 2022 — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today announced the winners for the twenty-fourth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most...